There is something paradoxically wonderful and thrilling about not prioritizing at all, but just improvising everything, putting out fires and doing what is either urgent, happens to come into our field of view or what we are asked by others to do ...
You have the option of marking e-mails with flags in Outlook, Mail (OS X) and Lotus Notes, and with stars in Gmail. Many people I meet use this function for e-mails which contain something they need to do something with. They thereby create ...
When did you last snooze a reminder? Was it this morning or just a few minutes ago? Or, do you not even use the reminder-function? A client asked me the other day about how to ...
Phone meetings and other remote meetings without camera are certainly not like other meetings. There are a few of us who ...
Done, done, done - don’t you just love the feeling of getting something done, when it is over, when we can cross it off our list, and when we have gotten one step further? I sure do. But somehow, some things never seem to get done ...
A great thing about digital material is that you can do a search for it. Or rather, we can let the ...
Some of us have quite a few meetings to attend every week - so many in fact that we have difficulties finding time to ...
If we are keeping track of all the things we need to do, have organized the materials we need, and manage our flows of information so systematically that we feel on top of things ...
Occasionally someone, a colleague for instance, asks us to do something and we respond ...
If you have plenty of meetings but not plenty of time between the meetings to do all those things you promised you would do before next meeting, you are ...
When I am on vacation, I rarely answer emails. Since I have my own company, I still like to ”keep an eye on things”, and have been keeping that eye on my inbox during my time off, but I have really only ...
Believing in yourself and having an optimistic approach to the world around you is wonderful, but optimism regarding how long something takes often comes back to bite you ...
Today is a new day. This year is not like the last. Even if time sometimes appear to be an illusion, we can regard this turn of the year as a transition into something new - a new chapter, that begins with a new, white page ...
Sometimes truly challenging tasks fall into our lap and we have to put all our resources to use to solve them. These tasks can be ...
A rule-of-thumb I often recommend when it comes to what we write ...
If I recall it correctly it was when I gave a lecture at a Rotary-meeting a few years ago, that a man came up to me and excitedly said ...
”I don’t have time”. How often don’t we hear people say this? How often don’t we say it ourselves? And how many times have we not heard ...
There is a lot of talk about having an empty inbox at the moment. And I also often speak about the wonderful feeling of having ...
Are you feeling the acceleration now as well? Summer is drawing near and we are rapidly approaching vacation. A client I spoke to the other day said that ...
The one who strives to be efficient must have space to work in. If there is not enough space it will be difficult to spread out all our material to get a better overview. Some of us get another ...
